It's Been a Busy Week for Ye (Not in a Good Way)

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• Ye needs to chill out 🫠 

• Who has a problem with “Like That?” 👀 

• New Music Friday releases 💿️

• Industry Insights 📈

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Ye Drops Even More Controversial Visuals— And Disses Piers Morgan

A new day, a new Ye meltdown. Whether he’s livestreaming unfiltered rants or posting on X just to trend for all the wrong reasons, Ye is once again doing the absolute most—like it’s his full-time job (and honestly, it kind of is).

Fresh off making headlines for the NSFW origin story of his “COUSINS” track and the record-breaking flop that was DONDA 2’s first-week sales, Ye is back with more rage-bait visuals. 

At this point, Ye isn’t just posting—he’s performing, and unfortunately for him (and us), the show has no intermission.

Ye’s pissing people off (again) 

On May 7, Ye dropped the music video for his new track, “Heil Hitler,” and yes, that’s really the title. The video features a group of Black men in animal skins chanting “n**** Heil Hitler” as the hook, because Ye will never be subtle.

Some of the song’s lyrics include “with all this money and fame, I still can’t get my kids back, With all this money and fame I still can’t see my children, I became a Nazi yet b****, I’m the villain….” The song finishes off with a speech from Adolf Hitler, because the song apparently had to be more offensive. 

The previous version of the song features a diss towards Drake (who at one point was on  the rapper’s good list) with Ye rapping that “n***** be acting like f*****, think they might be Drake.”

The song is slated to appear on Ye’s upcoming album Cuck, but according to the rapper, it’s already been banned from all streaming platforms. Shocking.

Another day, another disastrous Ye interview 

As if the video wasn’t enough of a PR disaster, Ye also sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan—because when your public image is in flames, why not pour gasoline on it?

Released May 6, the interview started off wobbly and quickly spiraled. With internet troll Sneako awkwardly posted up on the sidelines, Morgan questioned Ye’s current spiral and got this word salad in response:

“There’s so many people and artists that are championing the idea of someone being able to express who they really are, and have been able to go through the war of being attacked by the banks, attacked by… the banks, that’s the best way to put it, and to still be here with this view. That’s the win, I’m in contrast to your contrast.” 

Who knows what the banks have to do with his views of the world, but cool. 

When Morgan mentioned Ye’s 32 million followers on X, Ye fired back with, “You’re not going to take inches off my dick, bro.” Really, you can’t make this shit up. After Morgan’s team corrected the number to 33 million, things somehow got even weirder.

Ye asked Morgan why “all you people in media act like you haven’t played my songs at your weddings, graduations, or at funerals or when your child is born?” He followed that up with a mic-drop moment (not in a good way), telling Morgan to “circle back when you can count” before getting up and walking out.

Sneako tried to salvage what was left of the interview, but at that point, the damage was done. Ye continues to isolate himself from the industry that once crowned him a revolutionary — and even some of his most diehard fans are left asking the same thing: Who’s gonna take his phone away for real this time?

“Like That” is Facing a Lawsuit

When “Like That” dropped last March, it did more than throw shots — it detonated a rap beef that immediately had the timeline on fire. But Drake isn’t the only person Future, Metro Boomin, and K. Dot’s banger upset. Over a year later, the track is knee-deep in lawsuits, old-school grievances, and Grammy snubs.

In October 2024, Barry White’s estate filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song’s use of “Everlasting Bass,” the 1986 track by Rodney-O & Joe Cooley that’s heavily sampled in “Like That.” The estate claims it lifts key elements from White’s 1973 hit “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby.” 

So why now? According to the lawsuit, the original track dropped long before the internet made everything searchable, and they weren’t aware of it until recently. Basically: four decades later, Barry White’s estate pulled up like, “Wait a minute…”

While that case is still simmering, Rodney-O decided he’s had enough — and now he’s throwing his own legal haymaker.

Rodney-O is ready to fight back

In a complaint filed on May 7, the rapper is suing K. Dot, Future, and Metro for unpaid royalties. He claimed that Epic Records reached out to him a week before the track dropped, but the version he heard only had Future on it, and that only Future and Metro’s teams were allowed to hear the K. Dot version. 

“I didn’t even know Kendrick was on it until a day before when somebody called and said, ‘I heard Kendrick is on that record..And I said, ‘No I have the record. He’s not on there and the song was like two minutes,” he said in an interview with TMZ. 

As the man who actually owns ‘Everlasting Bass,” Rodney-O figured he might, you know, be allowed to hear the whole song before the world did — and maybe even approve the sample. But nope. Now he’s also mad that while “Like That” snagged Grammy nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, he wasn’t even mentioned in the footnotes.

“So, to come to me, take my record, make all this money, out on tour, do this and that and act like we’re not a part of it? Even left me off the Grammy nominations. How can you do that? No respect at all and that’s how a lot of old school artists get treated […] At a time when I should be celebrating, I don’t even want to hear the record,” he said.

​​And guess what? Rodney-O also has something to say to Barry White’s estate. He filed a complaint right back, calling their lawsuit a “cash grab” and pointing out that “Everlasting Bass” has been out here for 35 years with zero problems until now. “We don’t know where this came from,” he said. (Cue the Law & Order gavel.)

Meanwhile, “Like That” is still living rent-free on playlists, TikToks, and DJs’ laptops all while leaving a trail of lawsuits, bruised egos, and unanswered DMs. Everyone wants their credit. Everyone wants their check — and apparently, no one’s getting either without a fight.

New Music Friday

Here’s all the music you can listen to now—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ Cant’ Get Right by Lefty Gunplay, Jason Martin

• 💿️ Picture That by PinkPantheress

• 🎶 “Neverland” by Kid Cudi

• 🎶 “Crazy” by Russ

• 🎶 “Throw it Up” by Dom Corleo

• 🎶 “Timeless” (remix) by The Weeknd, Doechii

• 🎶 “Baby Mad At Me” by That Mexican OT, Lil Wayne

• 🎶 “Hard Truths” by UMI, 6LACK

• 🎶 “Sold Out” by Logic

• 🎶 “Self-Inflicted” by $uicideboy$

• 🎶 “Lotta Money Avenue & School Fight” by Tory Lanez

• 🎶 “Feel a Way” by Fredo Bang

• 🎶 “Change” by Doe Boy

• 🎶 “Thuggin Not Clubbin” by Peysoh, AZ Chike

• 🎶 “Hold Me Down” and “Sorry Rach!” by Stormzy

• Jay-Z has allegedly lost a lot. The rapper claims that he lost $190 million after being accused of sexual assault in an amended lawsuit against Tony Buzbee and Jane Doe.

• Bobby Shmurda, we still love you. The rapper’s recent tour has been cancelled with plenty of drama, including the booking agent claiming that only ten tickets were sold in each of the 19 cities featured on the tour.

• Quavo’s Rocket Foundation hosted a meaningful Mother’s Day. The rapper and his foundation hosted a special event for mothers who have lost their children to gun violence, with Takeoff’s mom and grandmother in attendance. 

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